Space Adventures #12

A team of scientists descends into a volcano in a heat-resistant vessel to investigate a mysterious green slime erupting from Earth's core—a radioactive substance unlike anything on record. What they discover in the blazing depths below challenges everything they thought they knew, and the cost of that knowledge may be more than anyone bargained for.

The Starship Constellation touches down on Mars after three grueling years of construction, ready to welcome Earth's colony ship—but the arrival brings only tragedy and a desperate choice. When a lone survivor emerges from the damaged vessel bearing news of catastrophe and carrying a deadly plague, Captain Moskowitz must confront impossible odds as the mission unravels in ways no one anticipated. What begins as humanity's greatest hope for survival becomes something far stranger in this 1954 tale of cosmic consequence.

Brilliant chemist Quentin Fay demonstrates his revolutionary hair-growth formula to a skeptical businessman, complete with a dramatic test on a hairless dog—but the deal's success masks a critical problem he's only just begun to understand. When fate intervenes and an unexpected consequence unfolds the morning after his celebration, Fay discovers his discovery may be far more dangerous than he ever imagined.

An alien scout named Val Nor arrives on Earth as a microscopic visitor, tasked with assessing humanity's strength before his race launches a full invasion—but he quickly grows confident that mankind poses no real threat. Studying us from the desert while constructing weapons from discarded materials, Val Nor believes he's found the perfect world for his people to colonize. When military forces finally detect his presence, the true test of his superiority begins.